Ch. 18-20
The ending was not at all what I had expected. I thought all the rumors were true, and that Tea Cake would take Janie’s money and run off with another woman. I still don’t like his character very much, but he did prove his love to Janie when he saved her, and got sick and died because of it.
Janie returns to Eatonville, where she lets the gossip spread. She doesn’t care about what people say to her, because she has seen what lies beyond in the horizon. Tea Cake showed her what life was like without the constraints that society had on her, and that’s why she loved him. She’s found her voice and been to the horizon and is now completely at peace.
